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I smirked. “And grant you alone time with Dominik? Why, when I can see you pissed off?”
“Fuck off.”
Although she was hostile, she poured me a drink.
“I have a favor to ask of you,” she said after being silent for a while.
I raised an eyebrow. “That’s a surprise I definitely didn’t expect. What can I do for you, Rhea?”
“Tell Kaya to call me.”
My brows narrowed. “Why?”
“I want to help her, of course.”
“Sorry to burst your bubble, but you would only get in her way.”
She gritted her teeth, annoyance on her face. “She changed her number, but it was easy to track. Tell her to call me. Who knows? I might be more helpful than you.”
That managed to rile me up. I stood up, ready to pull out my gun. A hand on my shoulder stopped me. Without glancing back, I knew it was Dominik. As if she’d seen a god, Rhea’s annoyance disappeared. Jesus, she was obsessed with him.
“Rhea, stop provoking him.” He then turned to me. “Davorin, stop falling for cheap provocations.”
Rhea placed the key to Himeros on the table. “This is a spare key. Use it whenever you want privacy.”
Without looking back, she was gone.
Dominik was behind the bar, pouring another drink for me and one for himself. I hadn’t realized the first one was gone that quickly.
“Drink up,” I urged. “You’ll definitely need it for what I’m about to tell you.”
My memory was excellent. Not a single detail was left out as I recited what Ekaterina had told me. Dominik was always the one whose face I could never read, and this was no exception. It was as if I’d told him that the grass was green. No reaction whatsoever.
“That’s unexpected,” he noted. “Does Kaya still have those files?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “I’m assuming she does, somewhere in that house in New Orleans. I didn’t get the chance to ask her or look around.”
He took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose, brows knit together. “The thought of repeating this to Aleksei is giving me a migraine.” Kaya had said a similar thing. It made me chuckle. They were far more similar than was visible at first glance.
“It’s your problem. I have to deal with your sister.”
He blinked and raised an eyebrow, though his stone expression didn’t falter. “Speaking of my sister, the man that the two of you left in Texas committed suicide.”
“Fuck,” I sighed out. “Their loyalty runs deep.”
He hummed. “Not only that, but he set the entire place on fire before killing himself. He was ordered to clean up his mess.”
“Kaya’s going to be pissed. She barely suppressed the urge to kill him, and he goes and does it himself.”
“Listen,” he said, pouring another drink. That drinking habit definitely ran in the family. “As much as I don’t mind cleaning up after Kaya’s… tantrums,” he said, referring to her killing sprees, “try preventing her from doing anything reckless right now. Even a single kill is enough to get those people on her back, and I can’t focus on her right now.”
“I’ll be with her at all times.”
Something between a laugh and snort came from him. “Until when? Aleksei might’ve kept quiet about it, but we both know why Kaya suddenly left New York. Although she was freed of the family, she never would’ve bolted that quickly.”
“What is your point?”
“I don’t know what you’re planning, and, quite frankly, I don’t care. However, if a single hair goes missing off her head, I’ll personally put a bullet through yours.”
